Controlling responsiveness to user inputs on a touch-sensitive display

• US 8,717,327 B2
• Filed: 10/10/2013
• Issued: 05/06/2014
• Est. Priority Date: 07/08/2011
• Status: Active Grant

• Current Assignee: Nokia Technologies Oy (Nokia Corporation)
• Original Assignee: Nokia Corporation
• Inventors: Hering, Jean-Marc
• Primary Examiner(s): Cheng, Joe H
• Application Number:
  US14/050,992
• Publication Number:
  US 20140035873A1
• Time in Patent Office: 208 Days
• Field of Search: 345/156, 345173-179, 178/18.01, 455/566, 715/815, 715/823, 715/863
• US Class Current: 345/173
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 3/0488 using a touch-screen or digitiser, e.g. input of commands through traced gestures

Abstract

A communications terminal comprises a and a touch-sensitive display for displaying content generated by a software application associated with the processor and for receiving touch-based interactions for use with said software application. A display controller is operable to selectively accept and reject touch-based interactions in one or more predetermined sub-region(s) of the touch-sensitive display. Interactions in said sub-region(s) are rejected in response to said software application being woken from an idle state by an event triggered independent of user interaction and subsequently accepted in response to a predetermined event, for example by user action in an active zone outside of the sub-region(s).

Claims

1. Apparatus comprising at least one processor and at least one memory having computer-readable code stored thereon which when executed controls the at least one processor:

to cause display of content generated by a software application associated with the processor;

to receive signals indicative of touch inputs on a touch-sensitive display; and

to respond to detection of a content window provided by the software application being enlarged by entering a first mode in which touch-based interactions in one or more predetermined sub-regions at a perimeter of the touch-sensitive display are rejected.

2. Apparatus according to claim 1, wherein the computer code when executed controls the processor to reject interactions in said one or more perimeter sub-regions in response to a user interface window associated with the application being enlarged in accordance with a maximise command.

3. Apparatus according to claim 1, wherein the software application is configured to control the processor to enlarge the window in response to one or more received touch inputs.

4. Apparatus according to claim 1, wherein the computer code when executed controls the processor to be responsive to interactions in said one or more perimeter sub-regions in response to a predetermined event.

5. Apparatus according to claim 4, wherein the computer code when executed controls the processor to be responsive to interactions in said perimeter sub-region(s) in response to user interactions made outside of said one or more perimeter sub-regions, and optionally wherein the computer code when executed controls the processor to be responsive to interactions are subsequently accepted in response to user interactions made through the touch-sensitive display outside of said one or more perimeter sub-regions.

6. Apparatus according to claim 1, wherein the display is elongate having opposed lengthwise edges and widthways edges, and the one or more perimeter sub-regions comprise first and second separate sub-regions located on lengthwise, opposite perimeters of the touch-sensitive display.

7. Apparatus according to claim 1, wherein the apparatus is a mobile communications terminal.

8. A method comprising:

causing display of content generated by a software application associated with the processor;

receiving signals indicative of touch inputs on a touch-sensitive display; and

responding to detection of a content window provided by the software application being enlarged by entering a first mode in which touch-based interactions in one or more predetermined sub-regions at a perimeter of the touch-sensitive display are rejected.

9. A non-transitory computer-readable storage medium having stored thereon computer-readable code, which, when executed by computing apparatus, causes the computing apparatus to perform a method comprising:

causing display of content generated by a software application associated with the processor;

receiving signals indicative of touch inputs on a touch-sensitive display; and

responding to detection of a content window provided by the software application being enlarged by entering a first mode in which touch-based interactions in one or more predetermined sub-regions at a perimeter of the touch-sensitive display are rejected.